Woundable Quotes & Sayings

The process of quitting smoking doesn't end with the last cigarette. It's not quitting itself, the real key is staying quit — Napoleon Bonaparte

Each of us is here for a brief sojourn, for what purpose he knows not, though sometimes he thinks he feels it — Albert Einstein

I don't think souls or bodies can be changed by incantation. Or anything else by the way. — Christopher Hitchens

Instead of buying a guitar for $2,000 or $2,500 - I'm not sure how much these are going for - but it's maybe $300 or something like that. It's more for beginners and stuff like that. Obviously it's not hitting the pros. And you can't get the Piezo pickup and the color-changing paint and the inlays and all the fancy things that my signature guitars offer, but you can get the general feel of the guitar - and the body style. It's cool. — John Petrucci

I do have screenplays I've written that never saw the light of day, but I don't usually go back to them. When I've told a story, I want to tell another story. — Joss Whedon

I am calling attention just to the main points of these tremendously important matters, which can be understood better by pious meditation than explained by human language. — Martin Chemnitz

With the right training, there are few things more savage than a ten-year-old. — Rick Yancey

I've never written a hard journalism piece in my life. I've never wanted to do that. — Laurence Shames

Death is coming and he's coming for me. — Andrea Heltsley

Teaching Ramanujan was like writing on a blackboard covered with excerpts from a more interesting lecture. — Lawrence Young

There is nothing impossible to him who will try. — Alexander The Great

Gay People can't do this. Women shouldn't be able to that. But touch my semiautomatic rifle and you're attacking my rights. — Remi Kanazi

I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous. — K.d. Lang

Hope wasn't a cottage industry; it was neither a product that she could manufacture like needlepoint samplers nor a substance she could secrete, in her cautious solitude, like a maple tree producing the essence of syrup. Hope was to be found in other people, by reaching out, by taking risks, by opening her fortress heart. — Dean Koontz

In a foreign country it is far from easy to study a scene at length when you know that at any minute someone may appear and ask what you are doing and that you can't answer, and you haven't many references, and you don't know the law. Neither is it easy to find and know the subjects for portraits or comfortable to make such picture when you cannot apply an anesthesia of small talk. — Robert Adams

Now shame is the only direct attack on conceit, the defensive image of oneself. Conceit is the common denominator of the Organization man, the hipster, and the juvenile delinquent-this is why I have been lumping them together. The conceited image of the self is usually not quite conscious, but it is instantly woundable; and people protect it with a conformity to their peers (oneself is superior). But the conceited groups differ in their methods of confirming and enhancing conceit: the juvenile delinquent by surly and mischievous destructiveness of the insulting privileged outgroup; the hipster by making fools of them with token performances; the Organization Man by status and salary. To his inner idol, they sacrifice the ingenuous exhibition and self-expression that could make them great, effective, or loved in the world; but that can also be shamed if it is mistaken, out of place, or disproportionate. — Paul Goodman